Melissa Mather Ambros, was an author and documented her families' story of moving to rural Vermont, in her gripping memoir called the “Rough Road Home”. They became homesteaders and raised cows for milk, cultivated beautiful gardens and grew some infamous potatoes! Excerpts from her book were featured in a series of Saturday Evening Post articles in 1958. She was born Nov. 12, 1917, in Chicago, to Arlisle Mather Brown, an English teacher, and Alfred Bruce Brown, an electrical engineer. She...
One summer in between
One summer in between
Synopsis
A journalistic account of the impressions and introspections of a southern Negro college girl spending the summer as a mother's helper to an unusual family in Vermont, where a perceptive eleven-year-old daughter, a father who is both architect and farmer, and an enriched family life all contribute to her own growth and to the sociological observations she is making for a college course.
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southern Negro college girlProtagonist
eleven-year-old daughterSupporting
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Edition
One Summer in BetweenPaperback, Janu
228 pages
Backinprint.comLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97805950938474 editions available
